Re: Playing DVDs using totem?

[Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Others in list have reported sucess with Totem.  You
> just need certain packages and it will work.  If I
> remember correctly something like gstreamer???? and
> other plugins will make it work.  
>  
What I was trying to say, was that I already tried this, and it still 
won't play my DVDs..

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> Sorry to add to tbe discussion, but I have a few
> remarks to add, I have both xine, and MPlayer on my
> pcs and I don't have any problems.  Most Dvd's play
> without a hiccup.  
>  
How do you define "most"?

> There are the frontends for xine 
> http://xinehq.de/index.php/download
> I can't complain about the frontend for xine the
> xine-ui might not be the best but it works!  
>
> To install xine I obtain the rpms from 
> http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/.
> I follow almost all the instructions there.  you can
> get RealPlayer and install the w32codecs to play
> windows media/quicktime and other formats. 
>
> As for MPlayer, you can install kplayer which is a
> nice frontend for MPlayer.  
>
> I have no complains as both players work for me and as
> far as ogle is concerned, it never worked for me.  I
> tried it in Mandrake, and Fedora Core 2 and 3 and it
> did not work.  They say it is real good, but it never
> worked for me.  So I can't rate it.
>  
Really? My experience has been exactly the opposite. Ogle has generally 
worked, but I've had all sorts of problems with the others - especiall 
mplayer. I've mainly tested it on network streams etc., though, and for 
those it will generally crash, hang or just give me a black screen at 
some point during the playback. As for DVDs, I think that when I tried a 
while back, I had a hard time finding out how exactly to tell mplayer it 
what to play - DVD menu support was non-existant. Right now, it won't 
display anything except the initial blue screen if I select "Open DVD". 
It then crashes as I right-click on the video window. That's with the 
Gtk frontend, and using mplayerhq's own packages.

I did get some problems with Ogle right now, though, after upgrading all 
the libdvd stuff etc. in an attempt to get the other players to work. 
I'm investing the issue...

- Toralf